111 Chapter 111
◎ She had actually kept such a serious matter as being kidnapped from him.◎
She wanted to take back what she had buried with her own hands and return it to him with her own hands.
From then on, the fate ended.
There was only a brother-sister relationship between her and Xie Qi.
She will continue to work hand in hand with Wei Che in the future, and Xie Qi will surely meet his true destined person.
It's just that that person has never been her.
Xu Qinghe wiped the tears from her face, let go of Wei Che's hand, walked towards the tree, and almost without thinking, she found the place where the box was buried.
So in the falling snow, the girl pulled out the hairpin from her bun again, and picked up the cold new snow and the cold and wet soil bit by bit. Her originally white fingers soon turned red.
Wei Che felt extremely distressed and tried to help her several times, but was always rejected. In the end, he had no choice but to let her go.
Finally, with her trembling red hands, the girl finally dug out the small wooden box that she had buried with her own hands three months ago.
Holding the box in her hands, she recalled how she had buried this thing with great sorrow not long ago, and now she had dug it up so quickly. She felt both happy and sad at the same time, and she stood there in a daze for a long time, unable to recover.
Seeing that the snow was getting heavier, Wei Che didn't care about anything else. He quickly fiddled with his cloak to wrap the person tightly, then picked him up and quickly got on the carriage.
Then he closed the car door to block out the wind and snow outside.
He casually put the box aside, held the girl's hand and blew on it. When he found that this had little effect, he didn't care about the mud on her hands, but directly tore open his clothes and put her cold hands on his chest to warm them.
Xu Qinghe was not a crybaby, but when her fingertips touched that warmth, tears welled up in her eyes.
Once upon a time, in the heavy snow in the southern border, there was also such a young man who complained that she could not take care of herself, while pressing her cold hands on his chest to keep them warm.
At that time, he still took into account the shyness between young boys and girls, and kept her warm through a layer of clothes.
But now, another man can own everything of hers openly as her husband.
She once thought that they would live together in such a sweet and loving way forever, but fate played such a trick on her that today, she had to say goodbye to him.
After Nuan returned the favor, Xu Qinghe took out the dressing mirror, wiped the dirt off her face, and straightened her hair and clothes. After everything was ready, the carriage finally arrived at Wei Che's villa in the suburbs of Beijing.
Wei Che wrapped the person tightly again before carrying him out of the car. Xu Qinghe was anxious to see Xie Qi, but he stopped her and insisted on holding the person in front of the fumigation cage to warm his hands and feet before letting him go.
Xu Qinghe untied his cloak, held the wooden box in his palm, and went to another room to see Xie Qi.
Her eyes were still red when she left. Wei Che guessed that when the person came out, her eyes would become redder and more swollen, so he went to the kitchen and cooked a few boiled eggs.
From lighting the fire to finally taking out the eggs, he did it all without any help from anyone else.
In fact, it was also to find something for myself to do so that my mind wouldn't be filled with thoughts about that girl.
But as she moved, she couldn't help but wonder what she would say to "Xie Qi"? What would she do?
He asked Fu Zongying to pretend to be Xie Qi, but he didn't know if he would reveal any flaws. More importantly, he hoped that this boy would not speak without restraint and make his girl even more sad.
As I was thinking, I became absent-minded. When I came to my senses, several eggs had been overcooked. The eggshells were cracked, revealing the egg whites inside, which scattered into the boiling water.
Wei Che sighed heavily and tried again.
After a long time of struggling, he finally managed to prepare a few eggs and put them in the pot to warm them, then went back to the original room to wait.
He thought the girl would stay with him for a long time, but unexpectedly, she came back from outside after he had waited for only a short while.
Wei Che hurried over with a cloak in his hand, and pressed her down on the couch to warm her up. Seeing her red and swollen eyes, he hurried to the kitchen in the snow to get out the boiled eggs.
He ran so fast that he didn't notice that when he turned around, the girl's tearful eyes behind him were instantly filled with inquiry, hesitation and confusion.
When he rolled the egg wrapped in a soft handkerchief over her eyes, Wei Che finally remembered to ask, "What did you say to him?"
Xu Qinghe raised her face and let him do what he wanted. She was very obedient, but her words were not obedient: "Why should I tell you about Xie Qi and me?"
The tone was so cheerful, obviously "Xie Qi" had comforted her. It was worth it that he had been telling Zong Ying about their past these days.
Wei Che also breathed a sigh of relief, and the heavy corners of his lips finally rose again, and he pretended to be resentful.
"You are my wife, and now you are meeting your former lover under my instigation, but I still have no right to know what you said. How can this be justified? What if you plan to give me a green hat one day and suddenly disappear without a trace together? What should I do?"
He sighed deeply and said helplessly: "Alas, how could there be someone as wronged and unlucky as me."
But what he was thinking in his heart was that he was lucky to meet such a good girl in this life.
At this moment, Xu Qinghe knew that she should scold him, but she didn't feel like saying anything, so she said that she was sleepy and wanted to take a nap.
Wei Che knew that she was upset, so he wanted to follow her and take the opportunity to comfort her, but she pushed and kicked him off the bed.
"I want to sleep alone, you go out."
He had no choice but to leave the room dejectedly. After standing at the door for a moment, he went to Xie Qi's room again.
Inside the room, "Xie Qi" had been waiting for a long time. He was a little wary when he heard the footsteps, but he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw who was coming.
"She just fell asleep. Let's take off the human skin mask on your face first." Wei Che sat on the chair and said slowly.
"Xie Qi" had wanted to take this thing off for a long time. His movements were so fast that people could not see clearly. In a flash, Fu Zongying's face was revealed. At the same time, his body slumped slightly. He no longer had the solemn and murderous aura of a young general, but instead looked very casual and relaxed.
Wei Che was just about to ask what Xu Qinghe had just said to him, but when he looked up he saw a wet spot on the man's collar. He was stunned at first, but soon figured out where the wet spot came from.
He was so angry that he grabbed the teacup beside him and threw it at Fu Zongying: "She actually hugged you just now?!"
Fu Zongying reacted quickly and naturally dodged it, even keeping the teacup safely in his hand.
He said helplessly, "Your princess is crying like that, and she wants to hug me, what can I do? Should I let 'Xie Qi' push her away? That would be so heartbreaking. Besides, this is such a small matter, and you're so petty to be jealous of this."
Wei Che naturally knew this, but he felt unhappy when he thought about this girl hugging another man to express her feelings.
After sulking alone for a moment, he finally asked, "What did she say to you?"
He thought that when the girl saw Xie Qi, she would probably reminisce about the past.
Unexpectedly, Fu Zongying said, "Nothing much, mostly business matters. She said long time no see to Xie Qi first, and then started telling him about her recent discoveries. However, what she said was pretty much the same as what we found out. Oh, and this handwritten letter from Meng Chen, she also gave it to me, oh no, to Xie Qi."
Wei Che took the letter. It was the same one he and she had found in the Wei Mansion.
In the past, she refused to give him the evidence no matter what, but now she gave it to Xie Qi without saying a word.
"But if you ask me, your princess's vigilance is too low. She only asked me a few questions and then she was sure that I was Xie Qi. She is so naive and will be easily deceived in the future."
Fu Zongying was speaking seriously at first, but when he said the last sentence, his tone became a little sarcastic.
Easy to be deceived, by whom? Of course, it was the person in front of me.
Apart from him, who else could have deceived the princess so completely?
Both of them knew that it was not that Xu Qinghe was not vigilant, but that the news was brought to her by Wei Che. Everything was arranged by Wei Che, the person she trusted the most now, so she naturally would not doubt too much.
However, what Wei Che didn't expect was that Xu Qinghe didn't discuss too many personal matters with Xie Qi. She simply returned the bracelet he had given her and said, "I've already met my soulmate. I also wish Third Brother Xie can find his soulmate soon so that I can have the chance to call him 'sister-in-law'."
She called him Third Brother.
It wasn't Xie Qi, it wasn't brother, but a proper thank you to Third Brother.
She didn't even open her mouth to blame him for hiding the fact that he was still alive from her, but just told him everything she knew about what happened that year.
Wei Che had previously told her to stop interfering in what happened back then, but she refused to listen. However, when Xie Qi spoke up today, she nodded obediently, "After all, this is a matter concerning the Xu and Xie families and the fifty thousand soldiers of the Southern Border Army. As the daughter of my father, the king, and my mother's concubine, if there's anything I need to do, please speak up."
“…Is that all you said?”
After listening to Fu Zongying's retelling, Wei Che slowly frowned.
She actually only talked about business and lightly revealed her lovesickness over the years?
He still remembered that when they first met, she kept her distance from him.
At that time, he thought that she was still obsessed with Wei Ming, but later he found out that it was only Xie Qi from the beginning to the end.
"Then have you asked me about her and Nan Mingzhao?"
Fu Zongying nodded. "It's said that half a year after the Nan'an King and his wife died in battle, you were in the military camp helping General Xie reorganize the Southern Border Army. Someone took the opportunity to kidnap her and use her to threaten you. After she managed to escape, she realized that the person was Nan Mingzhao."
It had been so long ago that Wei Che only remembered that he was very busy during that time. He had to take care of his beloved who was suffering from the loss of both his parents, and he had to finish the battle in the southern border. He was really too busy to handle it.
Now that Fu Zongying mentioned it, he seemed to have some vague memories.
She had never even told him about such a serious matter as being kidnapped.
Wei Che felt heavy in his heart for a moment. He solemnly found a place to put her bracelet, thinking about returning it to her after confessing to her and asking for her forgiveness.
He will only have one Xu Qinghe in his life, so it is impossible for him to meet any so-called good match again. This bracelet can only belong to her.
The roads were slippery and the snow was getting heavier, so Wei Che decided to just stay in this villa for one night and return to the city after the weather cleared up tomorrow.
The villa was different from the one in the capital, and there was no underground heating. He lit several charcoal braziers in the inner room, and then held the sleeping girl tightly in his arms to keep her warm.
In the middle of the night, I suddenly heard a slight sobbing sound.
When he opened his eyes, he saw the girl's trembling eyelashes and the bright tears on her eyelashes in the night.
"Thank you Qi... Thank you Qi..."
His nose felt sore and his heart ached so much that he couldn't breathe. He finally understood why the girl didn't mention her previous deep affection for "Xie Qi" when she was talking to him today.
It’s not about moving forward wholeheartedly, but about not wanting to show any vulnerability in front of the person I once liked.
She hoped that in his eyes, she would always be that calm and unhurried little princess.
Wei Che lowered his head and gently kissed away the tears on her eyelashes. He then patted her back to coax her to sleep, and finally said "I'm sorry" in a hoarse voice.
Amid the rustling sound of falling snow, Wei Che finally fell asleep with a heart full of guilt and heartache.
However, what he didn't know was that after he fell asleep, the person in his arms quietly opened his eyes.
【Author’s words】
Ok, ok, I'm busy again orz
It's better to be busy, it's better to be busy, it's better to be busy...
Who wants to do those messy things? I just want to write.
It's very likely that it will be updated the next day.
When will days like this end?
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